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那

那

那 U+90A3, 那
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90A3
← 邢
[U+90A2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 邤 →
[U+90A4]
See also: 哪

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

那 (radical 163 邑+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸手弓中 (SQNL), four-corner 17527, composition ⿰冄阝)

References

  • KangXi: page 1268, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39305
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3760, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+90A3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 那

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
那 *naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls
挪 *naːl
娜 *naːlʔ
柟 *noːm, *njam, *njamʔ
抩 *noːm
聃 *n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm
舑 *n̥ʰaːm, *njam
坍 *n̥ʰaːm
髯 *njam, *njams
蚺 *njam
呥 *njam
冉 *njam, *njamʔ
袡 *njam
苒 *njamʔ
姌 *njamʔ, *neːmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls) : phonetic 冄 ‎(OC *njam, *njamʔ, “fur”) + semantic 阝 ‎(“city”).

Originally the name of a city; later borrowed for a distal demonstrative.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 那 那 那
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 泥 (8) 泥 (8) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 歌 (94) 歌 (94) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I
Fanqie 諾何切 奴可切 奴箇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nɑ/ /nɑX/ /nɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nɑ/ /nɑX/ /nɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɑ/ /nɑX/ /nɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /na/ /naX/ /naH/
Li
Rong		 /nɑ/ /nɑX/ /nɑH/
Wang
Li		 /nɑ/ /nɑX/ /nɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nɑ/ /nɑX/ /nɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nuó nuǒ nuò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 那
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nuó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ na ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤar/
English ample

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 那 那 那
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 10766 10769 10770
Phonetic
component		 冉 冉 冉
Rime
group		 歌 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 那 橠 奈
Old
Chinese		 /*naːl/ /*naːlʔ/ /*naːls/
Notes 說文冄聲

Definitions

那

  1. that; those
    Antonyms: 這／这 (zhè)
    那人是誰？ / 那人是谁？  ―  Nà rén shì shuí?  ―  Who is that person?
    那是什麼？ / 那是什么？  ―  Nà shì shénme?  ―  What's that?
  2. Used after 咋 (zǎ), 咋就. so; that
  3. then; in that case
    那我呢？  ―  Nà wǒ ne?  ―  (Then) what about me?
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 那 (“that”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 那
Mandarin Beijing 那
Taiwan 那
Tianjin 那
Cantonese Guangzhou 嗰
Hong Kong 嗰
Taishan 嚀、𡃕
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 該
Liudui (S. Sixian) 該
Hsinchu (Hailu) 該
Dongshi (Dabu) 該
Zhuolan (Raoping) 該
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 遐
Min Dong Fuzhou 許
Min Nan Quanzhou 彼、許
Xiamen 彼、許
Zhangzhou 彼、許
Taipei 彼
Kaohsiung 彼
Malaysia 彼
Chaozhou 許
Shantou 許
Wu Shanghai 埃、伊
Wenzhou 許

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

那

  1. (dated) Alternative form of 哪 (nǎ, “which; where”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

那

  1. A surname​. Na; Nuo

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

那

  1. †beautiful
  2. †how
  3. †many
  4. †Alternative form of 挪 (nuó, “to move”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

那

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. what

Readings

Compounds

  • 与那原 (よなばる) ‎(yonabaru)

Korean

Hanja

那 • ‎(na) (hangeul 나, revised na, McCune-Reischauer na, Yale na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

那 (na, ná, nả, nà)

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